02:33 - VIGJust sayin' I remember nikarg's Sodom review on the front page, that album was like 30 years old

02:27 - ScreamingSteelUSTechnically, Che's Manunkind review was too old to be featured on the front page. That was a special exception; usually, we prefer to keep our reviews within three-to-four months, with six months as an absolute cutoff.

02:14 - VIG@Radu Of course! I don't think it's too old to be featured on the front page. Look at Che's Manunkind review

00:09 - RaduPPublished a review for an album that's a bit too old to be featured on the front page, but you guys will read it, right? [link]

01. Air02. Flashes03. Destroying The Time04. Perforate The Sky05. Through The Veins

Fading Waves is the brain child of Rostov-on-Don resident, Alexey Maximuk. Alexey's first full-length, The Sense Of Space, sees him call upon call up a half dozen of his amazing friends and bang out a pretty cool initial offering that sees post-metal blended with a little pinch of both goth and doom for good measure.

Fading Waves, in addition to being the band name, is probably a good enough starting point to describe the music. Waves can be beautiful and serene, gently lapping at the shore. They can also swell, crash upon the shore with a subtle ferocity that can drag surfers to their death. Gnarly, brah.

The album starts off innocently enough with "Air" and "Flashes", a nice, serene build up and some entrancing female vocals and continues along with lots of Explosions In The Sky style post-y developments. Clean guitar tones with reverb that slowly and gradually build in intensity.

Just as the songs ebb, flow, and grow, so does the album as a whole as with, say, Ulver's Bergtatt. The album grows from tranquil water, light and clean with beautiful female vox to raging, stormy seas with growls, distortion-pedal aided post-riffs, and even some guitar solos.

By the time the album ends with "Through The Veins", is almost surprising how far the album has come from the opening until close. Perhaps even more surprising how it escalated to that crescendo without any particular abrupt turns.

While the album was perhaps more enjoyable than I thought it would be (what, me with my "post-metal traumatic stress disorder" and all), ultimately it isn't particular innovative in a very crowded field of acts. But I guess that is present in all genres of music, eh?

Comments

Weird how the blackgaze movement got so tedious in a short time but the Post-metal stuff still brings something good at least, even if the originality factor is more or less absent it is still great to say the least
loved the review and will be checking this soon

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He who is not bold enough
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FUCK YES! Thanks for the review Craig. I have been digging this "band" since their EP "Please Wait" came out. Alexey states on his website that influences are Rosetta, Cult of Luna, and Isis. No wonder, right?

Also, an observation by me: This is what Mikael Akerfeldt would sound like if he did post-metal

FUCK YES! Thanks for the review Craig. I have been digging this "band" since their EP "Please Wai"t came out. Alexey states on his website that influences are Rosetta, Cult of Luna, and Isis. No wonder, right?

Also, an observation by me: This is what Mikael Akerfeldt would sound like if he did post-metal

Rosetta, Isis and Mikael Akerfeldt ... checking it NOW

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He who is not bold enough
to be stared at from across the abyss
is not bold enough
to stare into it himself.